Epistemologica Synchronicitie: Latin America and Greece

This transversal axis brings Indigenous Andean civilizations and the ancient Hellenic world into dialogue around questions of order, sacrality, memory, mountains, government, and cosmology. Rather than proposing an equivalence between distinct societies, it seeks to understand how worlds separated by time and space elaborated comparable responses to common historical problems: authority, community, ancestry, territory, and the relationship between human beings, gods, and natural forces.

The axis also examines the modern uses of these pasts. In Latin America and Greece, ancient memories were mobilized by colonial, national, and intellectual projects, though not always with the same degree of recognition or legitimacy. By placing the Andes, the Mediterranean, and the Balkans in relation, the proposal questions Eurocentric hierarchies of antiquity and broadens the field of global history, valuing marginalized cosmologies, relational ontologies, and insurgent practices of knowledge.